Singapore calls for actions to eliminate nuclear threats

Singapore has called upon the world to act before it is too late to get
rid of nuclear threat at the first meeting of the Nuclear Threat
Initiative held in the country on November 19-20.

"It makes for a
more riskier global environment now than ever before,” Singapore’s
Foreign Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam addressed the opening
ceremony.

Though the global nuclear stockpiles have decreased
from Cold War times from 70,000 nuclear warheads in 1986 to the lowest
level in 45 years, the number of nuclear weapon states has grown from
three to nine and more than 30 others have the ability to quickly
acquire them, he said.